On Aug 10, 1:09?am, pltrgyst > wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:31:34 -0700, Darrin > wrote:

> >Bull dreck! eh Europeans can't even make a decent deli sandwich!eh NY
> >Kosher Deli is stacked like a Cadillac!>ehe

> I'm a Katz's guy, myself. And kosher is for the camera store staff -- I'll take
> the French food up in Hell's Kitchen.

Legendary Katz's! eh Featured in the film When Harry Met Sally, ala
the orgasm scene! The same Katz's, where the World War II era slogan,
"Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army" originated. It's been on the
Lower East Side since 1888.

> >... NYC truly IS The City That Never Sleeps!>

> You can't afford to, with the people you put in Gracie Mansion.>

Now, now! You leave our 4th Jewish Mayor alone! eh A billionaire to
boot who pays for his own Manhattan townhouse digs! eh It has often
been said that being NY's Mayor is only
second to the President, in terms of exposure. Why else did The Fab 4
choose it to begin their invasion?eh

> >> -- Larry (from Jersey, ex-NYC resident...)>

> >Go ahead, convince yourself! LOL! Right back at ya (eh): Now why would
> >I take the word of a transplant who's now living in a subservient
> >appendage of the Greatest City in the World?eheh LOL! Larry, what
> >happened?>

> Actually, I said I'm *from* Jersey. But I've been either living or spending lots
> of time in NYC -- including down at Cortlandt Street, before those ugly WTC
> towers were ever built -- since the late 1950's.>

Do you know sweet, Jewish Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame?eh He too is
a
NJ-NY transplant!ehe

> I now live in DC -- the actual capital of the free world, with no water in our
> nice, clean, safe subway system.>

Yes, Bklynites (4th largest city in the US, "home to everyone from
everywhere") had a rare tornado touch down the other day!eh DC &
safe!? LOL! Unless you reside in the White House, there is no such
thing! ehe How many times has it made the Murder Capital list?eh
Whereas NYC contains to remain the safest, largest city in the nation.
Has been since 1993: http://www.tinyurl.com/234vsm

> It's DC that is supposed to have penis envy toward NYC, and the Washington Post
> toward the NY Times. What are you so defensive about? 8> -- Larry

The tip of the Empire State Building is the greatest circumcised
shmeckle in the world!ehe
The NY Times ("All the news that's fit to print") is the most
prestigious periodical in the world, winning a whopping 90 Pulitzer
Prizes. Not defensive. At the same time, I shouldn't have to be forced
to defend the obvious! ehe -D, NYC "It was so easy living day by day -
out of touch with the rhythm and blues - but now I need a little give
and take - The New York Times, The Daily News" - BILLY JOEL (umpteenth
sweet, Jewish NYer - Top 100 selling artist of all-time).."He was born
a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day - when the New York Times said
God is dead" - ELTON JOHN.."We can try to understand the New York
Times' effect on man" - BEE GEES.."New York City has the most
skyscrapers in the world with more than 130" - LITTLE BIG BOOK OF NEW
YORK.."What a fabulous, fun, smart post! I haven't been reading these
ngs for very long but sometimes I come across the comments and ritings
of people who have these wonderfully quick and lively minds, full of
fun and that ability to see sideways and around
things and sometimes, just old-fashioned brilliant. It's so great to
read and laugh and enjoy that spark!!" - CORDELIA LEAR (online user
describing yours truly!eheh).."I want to know who I am. I was brought
up in New York as an Episcopalian. I believe there was Jewish blood
on
my mother's side. Grandfather Maurice Klein came from Budapest
at age fourteen and worked in a sweatshop here. To me it says, Jewish
family. It's disturbing that here I am, a grownup, and I have no idea
who I am. Everybody who can tell me is dead" - ALI MACGRAW
"No other American city is so intensely American as New York" -
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, North America.."New York, you are an Egypt!
But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery
to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical
organpipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity
of liberty!" - SALVADOR DALI.."The city of New York, the noblest of
the American symbols" - JAMES MORRIS.."Imagine a world without
New York City - the terrorists already have!" - ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR
"{I am} just a nice Jewish girl from New York. Going back through my
life now, the Jewish family feeling stands proud and strong, and at
least I can say I am glad I sprang from that. I would not trade those
roots - that identity" - LAUREN BACALL (b. Betty Perske, from her
memoirs,
Lauren Bacall by Herself, 1979).."Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and
Staten..from
the Battery to the top of Manhattan..Asian, Middle-Eastern and
Latin..Black,
White, New York - you make it happen" - BEASTIE BOYS (umpteenth sweet,
Jewish
NYers - first successful all- white rap/rock group).."All the folks in
Manhattan
are sad, because they look at her and wish they had..the good old
Brooklyn
Bridge" - FRANK SINTARA (penned by Sammy Cahn (b. Cohen, sweet NYer)
and
Jule Styne (sweet Yiddish British).."It's not hard, not far to reach -
we can
hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach" - RAMONES (fathers of punk, Joey
Ramone
(b. Jeffrey Hyman, Queens, NY - umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer)